A life of two souls traveling through time

An hour later, Butler Fang returned to the study again.

"Master, the young master followed Manager Yuan to East Street."

"Yes." Li Xingyuan nodded. Seeing that the housekeeper was still standing there, he stopped practicing calligraphy and continued to ask, "Anything else?"

"This East Street has always been deserted, with unstable profits and losses, and you have no experience at all. Will taking over such a shop make you even more frustrated?" Butler Fang hesitated for a moment before slowly expressing his concerns.

"It's because you all flattered and protected him that he couldn't stand any setbacks and ended up like this!" The housekeeper's words reminded Li Xingyuan of his son's cowardly appearance. He was annoyed again and put down the pen in his hand and said seriously, "Only a shop with poor profits can give him the opportunity to practice. If he is motivated, he will understand my intentions. If he is just a useless person who eats and waits for death, it will be a waste even if he is given a good shop."

"I understand now. The master has good intentions." Butler Fang lowered his head and bowed to Li Xingyuan in response.

Li Xingyuan didn't say anything else, he just turned his head to look out the window and sighed heavily.

"Sir, Shopkeeper Yuan, we are here."

On the East Street of Qile City, a carriage stopped outside the famous Li Cloth Shop in Jiangnan. Ange lifted the curtain, and Li Yunye got off the carriage with Shopkeeper Yuan.

"This is... This is East Street? It's completely different from the bustling West Street." Li Yunye looked at the deserted street with only a few pedestrians in disbelief. The passion that had finally surged in his heart instantly cooled down.

"Ahem, a quiet shop will be more conducive for you to get familiar with management. Once you are proficient in the management of the cloth shop, the master will naturally arrange for you to go to West Street." Shopkeeper Yuan cleared his throat and consoled with a smile.

"Manager Yuan, how much is the monthly profit here?" Jiang Siyao didn't take such empty words of comfort to heart. She only cared about how to increase the profit of this shop within a month. Since she had taken over the shop reluctantly, she would do her best. She didn't want to be scolded by Li Xingyuan again.

"It's hard to say, the ups and downs are huge..."

“What do you mean by relatively large fluctuations?” Seeing Manager Yuan hesitating and evasive, Jiang Siyao thought to herself that it was all over.

"Lu Zhi greets the young master and Manager Yuan." At this time, a tall and thin young man ran out of the cloth shop and bowed and smiled at Li Yunye and Manager Yuan.

"Lu Zhi, quickly take the young master to visit the shop." Lu Zhi's sudden appearance interrupted Li Yunye's questioning, and Shopkeeper Yuan quickly changed the subject as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw.

"Young master, please come in." Lu Zhi responded and respectfully led Li Yunye into the cloth shop.

The streets were deserted and the shops were even more desolate. Cloths of various varieties were neatly displayed, and the floors and shelves were spotless. Everything was fine except that there were no customers.

"I think Jiangnan Ming Li has too much money and doesn't know where to spend it, so he chose such a place to open a store!" After walking around the store for a few times, Li Yunye felt even more disappointed. He sighed several times in a row and finally couldn't help complaining.

"Young master, you may not know that there are quite a few old customers living in East Street. Opening a shop is to take care of those old customers and to help them get goods. Secondly, the most sold items on this street are ironware and porcelain. During the first month of the year, many people will come here to buy ironware and porcelain, and naturally some will also buy some cloth to make new clothes." Shopkeeper Yuan followed Li Yunye all the way and explained patiently.

"Are you the only one looking after this shop?" After hearing what Manager Yuan said, Li Yunye felt a little hope in his heart and turned to ask Lu Zhi.

"Yes, sir. This shop is usually run by one person, so..."

"Ahem..." Before Lu Zhi could finish his words, Shopkeeper Yuan at the side coughed a few times and interrupted him.

"Manager Yuan, since I have taken over this shop, is there anything that I cannot know? Why hide it?" Li Yunye was very dissatisfied with Manager Yuan's behavior of preventing him from knowing about the shop, and he immediately frowned and said angrily.

"Young master, you have to slowly get to know the situation of the shop. There is no rush. I brought you here today just to familiarize yourself with it. I think it's getting late. You might as well go back home first. I will teach you how to read the account book tomorrow." Faced with the dissatisfaction of the young master, Shopkeeper Yuan had no choice but to continue to put on a smile. If the master had not instructed in advance to conceal the true situation of the East Street shop, he would not have wanted to do such a thankless task.

"Yes, sir, dinner is almost here, and you promised to have dinner with Madam today." An Ge behind him also stepped forward and whispered.

"Please keep the account book for me. Manager Yuan and I will come early tomorrow." After An Ge's reminder, Li Yunye said nothing more and handed the thick account book in his hand to Lu Zhi.

"Yes, son."

Lu went straight to the account book, and Li Yunye took Ange back to the carriage. Shopkeeper Yuan smiled and sent the carriage away, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Shopkeeper Yuan, did Lu Zhi say something wrong just now?" At this time, Lu Zhi on the side stepped forward and asked cautiously.

"It's not that you said something wrong, but since you have taken over this shop, you have to find some problems yourself in your daily life. We can't say too much. This is what the master meant."

"It seems that the master is determined to cultivate the young master now."

"I hope you can understand the master's good intentions." Shopkeeper Yuan nodded slowly and sighed as he continued to look at the carriage going away.

The carriage slowly passed through one street after another in the snow. Li Yunye leaned against the window with his eyes closed. He was digesting the shock of today in his mind, and at the same time he was worried about how to make this bleak shop profitable.

Ange, who was standing by, was very worried about the silent young man.

"Sir, the master must have his own reasons for entrusting you with a shop like this, so please don't..."

"Sir, I am a coward but not a fool. I understand your intention. If you want to temper a person, you have to arrange a disadvantageous situation for him." Before An Ge could finish his words, Li Yunye opened his eyes and interrupted him impatiently.

"My young master is the young master of a famous family named Li in Jiangnan. He is one of the most noble young masters in Qile City. He is not a coward or a fool." After hearing what the young master said, Ange was relieved and smiled.

"Flatterer." Li Yunye rolled his eyes at Ange speechlessly, and then continued to mutter like a deflated ball: "How can we make the business of a shop in this area better? We can't just rely on old customers, right? Cloth is not a snack, how can we buy it every day? There are not many people on the street, how can we attract business?"

I don’t know whether Li Xingyuan doesn’t understand his son or he overestimates me?

An Ge quietly watched Li Yunye talking to himself with a distressed look on his face, but he was very happy in his heart. He had been with the young master since he was a child, but this was the first time he saw the young master so concerned about the Li family's business.

Could it be that he was awakened by the beating he received half a month ago? But the young master had been beaten quite a few times in previous years.